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A Man's Game: Masculinity and the Anti-Aesthetics of American Literary Naturalism
University of Alabama Press, 2004 eISBN: 978-0-8173-8182-0 | Paper: 978-0-8173-5879-2 | Cloth: 978-0-8173-1347-0 Library of Congress Classification PS374.N29D83 2004 Dewey Decimal Classification 813.50912
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Demonstrates how concepts of masculinity shaped the aesthetic foundations of literary naturalism. Dudley explores a number of social, historical, and cultural developments that catalyzed the masculine impulse underlying literary naturalism: the rise of spectator sports and masculine athleticism; the professional role of the journalist, adopted by many male writers, allowing them to camouflage their primary role as artist; and post-Darwinian interest in the sexual component of natural selection. A Man's Game also explores the surprising adoption of a masculine literary naturalism by African-American writers at the beginning of the 20th century, a strategy, despite naturalism's emphasis on heredity and genetic determinism, that helped define the black struggle for racial equality.
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